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[jira] Created: (COUCHDB-651) Allow URL rewriting to be specified as a user-defined function instead of a regex pattern

Allow URL rewriting to be specified as a user-defined function instead of a regex pattern
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                 Key: COUCHDB-651
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-651
             Project: CouchDB
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 0.11
            Reporter: David Richardson


URL rewriting is currently specified with a regular expression. A user-defined function would make this more flexible and has the potential to be much clearer than complex regex patterns. A regex pattern is a degenerate case of the user-specified function.

One (but not the only) usage case is role-based document selection.
The role is retrieved from userctx and a startkey/endkey component is appended to the URL to limit the scope of available documents.

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[jira] Commented: (COUCHDB-651) Allow URL rewriting to be specified as a user-defined function instead of a regex pattern

Posted by "Paul Joseph Davis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-651?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12833082#action_12833082 ] 

Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-651:
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Theoretically this would be ok, but a user defined function would require a view server round trip for every request which would bring the pain in terms of performance.

> Allow URL rewriting to be specified as a user-defined function instead of a regex pattern
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-651
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-651
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.11
>            Reporter: David Richardson
>
> URL rewriting is currently specified with a regular expression. A user-defined function would make this more flexible and has the potential to be much clearer than complex regex patterns. A regex pattern is a degenerate case of the user-specified function.
> One (but not the only) usage case is role-based document selection.
> The role is retrieved from userctx and a startkey/endkey component is appended to the URL to limit the scope of available documents.

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[jira] Updated: (COUCHDB-651) Allow URL rewriting to be specified as a user-defined function instead of a regex pattern

Posted by "Paul Joseph Davis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-651?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Paul Joseph Davis updated COUCHDB-651:
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    Skill Level: Regular Contributors Level (Easy to Medium)

> Allow URL rewriting to be specified as a user-defined function instead of a regex pattern
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-651
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-651
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.11
>            Reporter: David Richardson
>
> URL rewriting is currently specified with a regular expression. A user-defined function would make this more flexible and has the potential to be much clearer than complex regex patterns. A regex pattern is a degenerate case of the user-specified function.
> One (but not the only) usage case is role-based document selection.
> The role is retrieved from userctx and a startkey/endkey component is appended to the URL to limit the scope of available documents.

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